Recent content by sedrosken

Walmart's house-brand makes generics of the Outshine bars for a couple bucks cheaper per box, and you get a couple more bars in each box -- I bought the coconut ones to directly compare against the Outshines, and while I could nitpick and say the Outshines have a bit more coconut shavings, they...

Thanks for the insight into the era, Merc. You'd be surprised to hear it but it's not an era a lot of people talk about -- the late 90s, sure, maybe the run up to 2000 in the non-Windows NT world as the various UNIX platforms are apparently more interesting than the one that'd come to dominate...

My headset jack still doesn't work right -- it registers something plugging in but never puts sound out to it. But that's relatively minor. My built-in mic is picked up on now in applications. I've acquired another PIII era laptop, this one is another nice little subnotebook -- a Compaq Evo...

It's definitely an interesting proposition for my desk for my next major upgrade in a few years. Do you know what kind of power it's drawing from the wall? It'd be interesting to see if it can outgun my desktop and Precision in even less power than the Precision takes, which is around 175-200W...

I'm a moron. I didn't give my user membership of the audio group. I'm shocked I had working audio at all.

Nothing too out of the ordinary policies wise. We do run a security stack -- including ThreatLocker, which did the Kaby-R i7 in my work laptop no favors speed-wise, but doesn't seem to do badly on for RAM, hovering around 50 megs -- and for some workstations a BCDR agent pulling backups, but...

Yeah, they've dropped the "new" branding from their beta baby and rebranded plain Outlook as "(classic)". I have quite a few users who are concerned about it disappearing entirely. I have a couple folks who like it, but most have no end of issues with it. Moreso than old Outlook, which they're...

Even after all that tomfoolery I still never got sound out of my headset jack and discord won't pick up my built-in mic. Thankfully generic USB-C dongles work and bluetooth works fine -- which is weird, usually bluetooth is the bit that likes to not work right for me under Linux.

If your trial service and permanent service are on the same carrier they should transition that for you. If they're not the permanent service ought to be able to port your temporary number.

I wouldn't buy anything meant for someone to actually use with less than 16GB of RAM in $currentYear. Really I don't even like 16 for Windows anymore -- they run uncomfortably close to the line with a few Chrome tabs open now. Throw Outlook and Teams or Zoom into that mix, along with a few...

And the Intel ones use funky sound hardware that needs special firmware and such, like this does. Would you believe that it took this long for the modules to get integrated in-tree? I used to have to use a script that'd strip the modules from a regular ChromeOS kernel or something. Insanity. My...

That's true. Not everyone religiously backs their dotfiles up to their NAS like I do, making restoration relatively quick and painless beyond the tedium of typing out a long mount command to pull up an NFS share. But I find segregating /home a little silly on a machine with a single physical...

well, my fstab is more NFS shares than actual physical volumes anyway, so... A separate /home volume makes a lot more sense when there are multiple internal drives. Back when I used to do a split-storage setup -- 512GB SSD root and a 2 or 4TB drive for /home -- it made a lot more sense. I...

I should probably qualify that statement: before, I've tried having /home on a microSD card or even a small USB drive. Bumping the sides of the machine would disconnect the drive briefly and make the entire X session crash. I can handle that for some games alone, but not the entire X session.

This probably seems obvious to you all, but it just occurred to me that I can move my steam/wine folder in my /home to a microSD card and hardlink the folders; hell, I could probably even get away with mere symbolic links. This would allow me to install a bunch more stuff on the chromebook and...